Lady Margaret Bryan
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Lady Margaret Bryan, née Bourchier (died 1551/52). She was the eldest daughter of Sir Humphrey Bourchier and Lady Elizabeth Tilney. Lady Tilney was also a Duchess of Norfolk by another marriage. Lady Margaret was married to Sir Thomas Bryan. As a daughter of Sir Humphrey Bourchier, Margaret Bryan could boast royal English Plantagenet bloodlines for herself, and this may have helped her secure her posts with King Henry VIII, who was a distant cousin. Lady Margaret served as governess to Princess Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon, and then was elevated to serve as governess to Princess Elizabeth Tudor after the birth of the princess to Queen Anne Boleyn. Lady Margaret is noted as having claimed to have been created a Baroness by King Henry VIII, and styled herself as 'Baroness Bryant'.
Nicknamed "Muggie" by the four year old Princess Elizabeth Tudor (later Queen Elizabeth I), Lady Margaret was young Elizabeth's first governess appointed by her ever watchful mother, Anne Boleyn.
